ARA GÜLER

@FOTOİSTANBUL

EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA

@FOTOİSTANBUL

FETHİ SABUNSOY

@FOTOİSTANBUL

JOSEF KOUDELKA

@FOTOİSTANBUL

ATTA KIM

@FOTOİSTANBUL

ROBERT FRANK

@FOTOİSTANBUL

ARA GÜLER

EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA

FETHİ SABUNSOY

JOSEF KOUDELKA

ATTA KIM

ROBERT FRANK

About:

Expanding on this year’s theme “The Lives of Others” and in collaboration with The Everyday Projects, FotoIstanbul proudly announces its first photo competition on Instagram. This competition is open to anyone around the world with access to Instagram.

Rules & Eligibility:

The contest is open to anyone with an Instagram account app.

Participant’s Instagram account must be public.

Participants need not to be professional photographers.

Participants must tag their images with #FotoIstanbul2015 hashtag and post them on their Instagram feed.

Submitted images may be taken with any photographic device.

Uploaded and tagged images must be copyright of the participants.

Participants must comply with Instagram community guidelines and terms of service as well as international copyright and intellectual property laws.

Participants using other people’s photography will be disqualified.

Participants agree and give full permission to FotoIstanbul to post their submissions on FotoIstanbul’s social media accounts including but not limited to Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Participants agree and give full permission to FotoIstanbul to post their submissions in FotoIstanbul Facebook page for public/second round of judging.

Contest winners allow FotoIstanbul the right to use his or her name, likeness and biographical information, as well as the right to select and use images in connection with any and all FotoIstanbul promotions.

Participants retain full copyright of their submissions and work.

FotoIstanbul reserves the right to request documentation in any form proving ownership of submitted photographs.

FotoIstanbul reserves the right to unilaterally amend the contest rules, awards, dates, content, and structure.

Participants are considered to have read and fully agreed and understood FotoIstanbul terms and conditions.

Employees of FotoIstanbul as well as all founders and contributors involved with The Everyday Projects are not eligible to participate.

Make sure to mention @fotoistanbultr in your captions.

Deadline:

Submissions are accepted between September 9, 2015 and October 9, 2015. Submissions close at 18:00 Eastern European Time Zone (Turkey time).

Judging:

A distinguished and independent panel from The Everyday Projects will select the best images for the preliminary round of the judging by the end of October 9, 2015.

Our Jury Members:

Peter DiCampo (@pdicampo) from @EverydayAfrica

Lindsay Mackenzie (@lindsay_mackenzie) from @EverydayMiddleEast

Sim Chi Yin (@chiyin_sim) from @EverydayAsia

Elie Gardner (@eliegardner) from @EverydayLatinAmerica

Oscar Durand (@oscardurand) from @EverydayLatinAmerica

Once the first round is completed the selected images by The Everyday Projects panel will be posted on FotoIstanbul’s Facebook page on October 9, 2015. At this point the public is invited to participate in the second round of judging. For this round the public (everyone everywhere) is invited to visit FotoIstanbul Facebook’s page and LIKE the images they would like to see win.

There will be no limit on the number of images one can LIKE on FotoIstanbul Facebook page. At the end of public judging round top three images with the most number of LIKEs will be announced as winners. Public judging period ends on November 9, 2015.

More Awards:

FotoIstanbul will arrange for the delivery of prizes to the winners. Winners may be subjected to various taxes and tariffs depending on each winner’s country of residence and/or citizenship. FotoIstanbul, its affiliates, and sponsors will not be responsible for such taxes and tariffs.

Announcement:

The winners will be announced publicly on FotoIstanbul’s Facebook page on November 9, 2015.

Conditions of Participation for Projects

Please include a short introductory text and your biography along with your projects.
To enter, please upload your project to entry form, a body of work, along with an artist’s
statement and biography in one zipped folder. You can send us your files, consisting maximum
40 photographs. Images must be no larger than 1000 pixels on the longest side, 72dpi, sRGB jpeg
format. Label the files with your name and numeration (firstname_lastname_1.jpg). Please date
the work and include relevant titles. Upload your zipped folder, which must not exceed 20mb.
Submissions received in any other format will not be accepted.Deadline 30 june 2016

Conditions of Participation for Slide Shows

Please present your slideshows in completed form. Please refrain from sending disparate images.
Please add you name and country of origin to the beginning of the slideshow. Please also add
reference to the soundtracks therein. All slideshows must be international format: 1920X1080p
(HD quality) You can upload your MP4 or film flies via entry form. Your folder must not exceed 20mb. Deadline 30 june 2016

FotoIstanbul 2015 Instagram Photography Contest Winners

MANIFEST OF FOTOISTANBUL

THE LIVES OF OTHERS

We seek that which is not ourselves.

How we came into the world isn’t the only thing that determines who we are. We are all cobbled together by the interplay of the past, our time and place of birth, our beliefs and our ethnic roots, our cultural and genetic legacies, our upbringing as well as our idiosyncratic tendencies and preferences. The list goes on.

What actually interests us more is who we are not; we are interested in Others. We want to understand them and know them, just as they are.

We want to be able to see life not only from our own perspective, but also from that of the Other, and to be able to look back at ourselves differently from that Other perspective.

We would like to encounter and share Other thoughts, loves, beauties, pleasures and pains, and everything about Others’ lives.

We would like to come closer to Other lives by turning our lenses and not our prejudices upon them, to shine a light on them and share them with the world.

We would like to share life with Others instead of living it in homogeneous isolation.

For better or worse, and whatever may happen, we would like to know and understand Others’ lives.

We know another life is possible. And we can only get there if we build it with Others.